Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-08-31
coMfNG JOYS.
The Helena Herald Tells OF the
Pleasures the Editors will
Enjoy at Great Falls.

HELENA, August a6.-The selection OF
Great Falls as the. next place of meeting
for the Montana Press Association was
made at the instance of Jerry Collins and
met with general approval. The Herald
refers TO the circumstance in these pleas
ant terms:
The Montana Press Association at their
session yesterday voted unanimously to
hold their next annual meeting at Great
Falls, the Cataract City of the upper Mis-
souri,. This is a wise selection indeed,
and one that will make early and lasting
impressions upon more than fifty of the
able newspaper men Of Montana, who will
assemble there a year hence and who will
talk back to at least a hundred thousand
readers. And what will they say? One
and ali will picture to their readers the
beautiful and eligible location of Great
Falls, above which are the placid waters
of the mighty Missouri, backed up for
several miles by the Black Eagle falls, a
slight natural barrier which holds the ac-
eumulated waters for the series of plunges
they make in fourteen miles of prepare
ton for the mighty leap over. the Great
falls of the Missouri.
These mighty men Of the quill will
speak and write of the eminent hospitali-
ties Of the citizens of the Cataract City,
how they opened wide their doors and bid
them welcome, how they toasted their
guests to their full, how they ate them,
how they wined them and dined them.
They will tell their readers of the sopori-
fee influence of the seductive lullaby of
the rushing waters of the upper Missouri
as they seek the first falls, now they took
their "night caps" and settled themselves
for a good square sleep, how they had
their heads hooped for the big-head, aud
how they consoled themselves as the old
lady did, who said she knew her sons had
not been drinking the night before because
they drank so much water the next morn
ing. They will tell their readers Of the
great spring that hollis over from a natural
fountain. where the veritable drop of cold
water is supposed to have issued which
cooled the palate of one of the first old
timers-whence came the soup OF water
whose draught of cool refreshment. rs
drained by fever's lips, sends a shock of
pleasure to the soul mor exquisite than
when nectarian juice renews the joys of
life in happiest hours"
They will tell their readers of the jolly
ride they had on the steamer Fern or Rose
Of Helena from Great Falls up through the
Gate of the Mountains, and how they
awakened the slumbering echoes of the
great canyon with their 0 II of "Dance,
the boatman. dance: Well dance all night
till broad daylight and go home with the
girls in the morning"
They will tell their thousands of read
ers of the grand, good times they had at
their fourth annual meeting, when they
viewed the beauties of the mountains, and
of the valleys and the streams from their
outlook at Great Falls, where a very long
latch string was the open sesame to the
Montana press gang.
A FOURTH ERM
On Wednesday the Herald said: Jerry
Collins, editor of the Great Falls TRIBUNE,
who was elected recording secretary for
fourth term by the Press Association, is
one of the charter members and active or
ganizers of the society. He has made a
most efficient officer, and the honor of q
fourth election was well earned and prop
erly bestowed. Mr.. Collins refused to &C
the least compensation for his SER
vices, although the association thought he
was justly entitled to receive liberal pay
for the very considerable work connected
with his Office.
Waiter NJ. O'Dwyer Of the Great Falls
TRIBUNE, r. G. Walker of the Herald
and Alex Devine of the Independent were
in executive committee.